On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:24:09AM +0100, Ross Paterson wrote:
> How about STM (minus retry/orElse) and TVars as the portable interface?
> They're trivial for a single-threaded implementation, and provide a
> comfortable interface for everyone.
It may be relevant for this discussion: I believe I r
On 2006-03-28, Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/27/06, Ross Paterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> How about STM (minus retry/orElse) and TVars as the portable interface?
>> They're trivial for a single-threaded implementation, and provide a
>> comfortable interface for everyone.
>
> +1 on S
On 3/27/06, Ross Paterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How about STM (minus retry/orElse) and TVars as the portable interface?
> They're trivial for a single-threaded implementation, and provide a
> comfortable interface for everyone.
+1 on STM as the core interface. Why do you suggest omitting re
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:36:28AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 26 March 2006 03:44, Ross Paterson wrote:
> > [...] the key point is that
> > a Haskell' module that does not use concurrency, but is thread-safe,
> > ought to work with non-concurrent implementations too.
> >
> > To make that work
> it's too hard to implement (and it's not always hard
> - the YHC guys
> managed it in a matter of days
Tom is the one who implemented it in Yhc, and details can be found
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yhc/RTS/Concurrency
but some of the reasons that it was easier than in other compilers are
On 26 March 2006 02:31, isaac jones wrote:
> Possible Interests:
> 1. I can write tools like filesystems, web servers, and GUIs in
> Haskell'
> 2. Libraries that I use are thread-safe
> 3. I can compile my code with any Haskell' compiler
> 4. Tools such as debuggers and tracers that claim to s
FYI, Cayenne used the center dot as composition. See the System$HO module.
http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~augustss/cayenne/system.html
I remember liking it but I think the ring operator would be closer to
mathematics notation and indeed the best choice.
Cheers,
/Josef
On 3/25/06, Dylan Thurston <[EM
I am not sure how this look in other people's editors and mail-
readers, but on my machine (Mac OS X Tiger) there
is significantly more white space after the symbol than before. Is
that normal?
For emacs, just bind a key (C-. say) to (ucs-insert
#X2218). ucs-insert comes from ucs-tables.
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:07:53AM +, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> > I assume that since a non-concurrent implementation has
> > only one thread, that thread will be trying to MVar-synchronise with
> > something that does not exist, and hence
On 26 March 2006 03:44, Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 05:31:04PM -0800, isaac jones wrote:
>> I have no idea if it would work, but one solution that Simon didn't
>> mention in his enumeration (below) is that we could find a group of
>> people willing to work hard to implement conc
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